All Chapters of What She Could Never Be: Chapter 1 - Chapter 8

The crash happened faster than a breath.Heavy metal tore through the rain, the windshield exploding into a shower of fragments. Then came that strange, scorched smell—mixed with a faint metallic tang.Silver dust meeting flesh at high heat.And Vanessa?She lunged toward the smoking wreck like a peacock who'd been waiting all night to spread her feathers, screaming at the top of her lungs."Call an ambulance! Someone help this woman!"She dropped to her knees in broken glass and blood, her perfect makeup untouched, her white coat soaking red in seconds. She wailed at passersby for help while pretending to pump the chest of the unconscious woman inside the car.Any onlooker would've sworn she was some kind of human angel, throwing herself into danger without a second thought.Within five minutes, sirens closed in—police cruisers, private medical response teams.Vanessa's head snapped up at the reporters and cameras rushing toward her. Her eyes went red-rimmed, her voice trembling as sh

I got home to the sound of laughter spilling through the living room.Vanessa sat right in the middle of the couch, a glass of red wine in hand, reenacting her "heroic" performance at the hospital for our adoptive parents with dramatic flair."...Rex's Beta actually spoke to me personally. He was incredibly polite."Vanessa's face glowed, flushed with excitement."That Luna won't make it through the night. Once she's gone, Rex will be at his most vulnerable. All I have to do is show up every day to comfort him, and that pack's Luna title is mine for the taking!"Our adoptive mother was already slicing fruit for her, beaming from ear to ear."Oh, I always said our Vanessa had the face of a queen! Once that happens, we'll be moving into the Northside estate—who's going to care about ordinary humans then?"Our adoptive father was grinning so wide his cheeks must've hurt, already calculating how many shops and territory dividends he could squeeze out of the pack.I changed my shoes in sile

The SUV didn't head toward the Northside estate. Instead, it veered down a remote forest road, heading toward the edge of Firwood territory.The scenery outside grew wilder, thicker—dense black pines blocking out the sky.When the vehicle finally stopped, Vanessa glanced out the window and shrieked:"What the hell is this place? We're supposed to be at the estate! Why did you drag us out to this godforsaken wasteland?"My father's face darkened. He slammed his palm against the seat."Logan! Do you even know basic protocol? When we see Rex, we'll have Vanessa get you fired with one word!"Logan didn't turn around. He opened the door and stepped out.A blast of freezing wind rushed into the cabin.Within seconds, dozens of hulking black-clad guards had materialized outside—all muscle, all cold eyes, radiating bloodlust. They'd surrounded the SUV before anyone could blink.They were parked at an abandoned outpost. Razor-wire fences loomed high. The air pressed down with suffocating menace

The SUV rolled into the private healing estate at the heart of Firwood Pack territory.Guards stood like a forest of shadows outside the top-floor ICU.At the end of the long corridor stood a man—tall, broad-shouldered, his presence pressing down on the air like a storm front.Rex. Alpha of the Firwood Pack.Nothing like the cold-blooded killer of legend. Tonight, his heavy coat was gone. His white shirt was rolled to his forearms, a faint stubble darkening his jaw.Through the floor-to-ceiling one-way glass of the private ward, I stared blankly inside.On the bed lay Helena—the Luna—still wearing her oxygen mask. Her face was pale, but the monitor beside her beeped steady and strong.She wasn't dead.The so-called "failed resuscitation" had been nothing but a trap—Rex's play to lure Vanessa right into the snare."Eileen."Rex turned. His deep-set eyes landed on me, unreadable and heavy. He handed me a brown paper file."Read this."I opened it. Inside was a sealed genetic and bloodlin